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(No Model.)

NORDENFELT.

CARRIAGE FOR MACHINE GUNS.

Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEFTQE.

THORSTEN NORDENFELT, OF \VESTMINSTEB, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE MAXIM NORDENFELT GUNS AND AMMUNITION COMPANY, (LIMITED) CARRIAGE FOR MACHINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,386, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed Scptcmbcrfll, 1888. Serial No. 236.176. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THoRsTEN NoRnEN- FELT, civil engineer, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at 53 Parliament street,

in the city of WVestminster, England, have invented a Carriage for Machine-Guns Specially Adapted for the Defense of Parapets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object a carriage for IO an automatic or machine gun. This carriage is specially designed for the Maxim automatic gun, but is applicable, also, to other machine guns of small caliber. The carriage is intended to adapt such guns for more convenient use [5 upon ramparts andin shelter-trenches. A pair of wheels mounted on an axle carries a frame or socket-piece so mounted as to be able to turn on the axle. The socket-piece supports the gun and gun-mounting,with the usual appliances for elevating and .depressing and for training the gun upon the object. In the socket a pole crossing the axle at right angles is carried. \Vhen traveling, the gun is drawn by men holding handles at the fore end of the pole. The pole also serves as a support for the gun when in action. When the gun is mounted for action, the pole occupies an inclined position. Its lower end rests upon the ground and the handles at its upper end bear upon the top of the parapet. The handles are provided with claws to enable them to take a firm hold. The gun is raised to the'elevation required by sliding the socket-piece along the pole. To facilitate this, the axle has a pinion fast upon it, and the pinion gears with rackteeth formed upon the pole. There is also a clutch sliding upon the axle. By means of the clutch the axle can be made fast to one of the wheels. When the clutch is engaged, by turn- 0 ing the wheel by manual labor the gun-carriage is caused to mount up along theincl'incdpole until the muzzle of the gun is above the parapet. The socketpiece is locked fast upon the pole by means of a clamp provided for the purpose.

In order that my said invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effeet, I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa side elevation of the gun and carriage as they appear mounted for use behind a parapet. Fig. 2 is a plan, partly in section, of the same.

A A is a Maxim rifle-caliber gun of the ordinary construction, and B is a standard to which it is jointed at A. This standard B is carried upon the socket-piece O in such .manner that it can rotate horizontally to allow of the gun being trained upon the mark. The standard B has a horizontal arm, B. which carries the elevating-screw O, on which the rear end of the gun is supported.

0 is a supporting-arm on the socket-piece C. The standard B and the arm B can be traversed around through a considerable are upon the socket-piece G.

D is the pole passing through the socketpiece 0.

E is a clamping-screw for setting the socketpiece fast upon the pole in any desired posi- 0 tion.

D are rack-teeth upon the pole.

D is the foot at the lower end of the pole, which rests upon the ground. a

D" are the handles at the upper end of the pole.

D are the claws at the ends of the handles, which obtain a good grip upon the parapet.

F is the axle passing through the socketpiece 0.

G is a pinion fast upon the axle and gearing with the teeth D on the pole.

H H are the wheels which carry the gun when traveling. They are able to turn freely upon the axle Gr.

I is the clutch-piece, movable along the axle and serving to engage it with one of the roadwheels, h, to enable this wheel to be used to cause the gun carriage to mount upon the pole.

For traveling, the pole is brought forward 0 through the socket-piece as far as the foot D will admit, and it is then secured by the clamp E. The gun can then be drawn about from place to place by men holding the handles.

Having now particularly described and as- 5 ccrtained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,

I declare that what I claim is- 1. The combination of the gun, the socketpiece on which it is mounted, the pole on which the socket-piece rests and on which it slides, and devices for clamping the socketpiece to the pole, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the gun, the socketpiece on which the gun is mounted, the pole extending through the socket piece, devices for clamping the socket-piece to the pole, the axle secured to the socket-piece,and the wheels on each end of the axle, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the socket-piece O, supporting a machinegun, the pole capable of sliding through this socket-piece and of being with the gun upon it along the pole, substantially as described.

THOBSTEN N ORDEN FELT.

Vi tn esses:

F. H. GARNETT, F. A. N0EL.

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